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[33girl]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

I am not going to do it here, but I could point to MANY top SEC sorority chapters at top schools where the girls are far more uniform in the physical appearance so many of you seem to hate (even to the point where groups are almost all blonde or brunette) than at Texas.

Ummm, the SEC has gotten raked over the coals on here a HELL of a lot more than Texas. And if Penn State or Lehigh or UCLA were asking for a full body shot, the same conversation would be going on. It's not a criticize this because Texas does it, it's criticize Texas because they do this.

Low C Sharp - undeniably there are enough women in Texas to have stellar chapters of all 26 NPC sororities, but if they only want to join certain groups, it doesn't matter, so no sorority that is afraid they can compete is going to venture in. "If you build it they will come" doesn't apply here.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Ummm, the SEC has gotten raked over the coals on here a HELL of a lot more than Texas. And if Penn State or Lehigh or UCLA were asking for a full body shot, the same conversation would be going on. It's not a criticize this because Texas does it, it's criticize Texas because they do this.

Gotcha- this makes a bit more sense the way you have stated it.

This whole thread just kind of caught me off guard because it seemed a rather harsh reaction over a photo request- and it was coming from GCers who I consider to be very intelligent and thoughtful posters. And I know a lot of UT sorority women- and am related to a few. I don't find them as a group to be especially superficial- on the contrary sorority life is intended to make people more gracious (though it doesn't always work!)

I guess my attitude is that if this kind of superficial judgment is to be made- it will happen at some point, photo or not. But I can at least appreciate why this is an insulting aspect of the process to many.

And I do not think it is entirely superficial. A person's overall appearance- and by appearance I mean their choice of clothing and state of grooming- in a formal application process does not necessarily say a lot about them personally. But it does say a lot about how seriously they take the rush process and sorority life in general.

Granted that means some good candidates will fall through the cracks if they come here not prepared for the fact that in a very real sense "rush" begins when you are born (no I am not joking), but as someone else said- when you have this many ladies competing for a very few slots, it is inevitable that some seemingly arbitrary criteria have to be used along the way.

Whether a sorority uses those photos to pick only thin ladies or ladies who have a good overall presentation is impossible to really know- though I know some will make selections on one versus the other. It is a shade of meaning that differentiates between elitism and elite.

Anyhow, I am sorry if I was rude to anyone. The strong reaction just really shocked me even though I can at least understand it and acknowledge it is not an entirely unreasonable position.

epchick- I will never understand A&M and the whole TU thing. They also do a hand gesture and have bumper stickers with upside down horns. The whole idea is to basically reverse everything- you know, just like Satan worshippers (my brother is an Aggie- I say this in good fun.)

[Stef the Pef]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

epchick- I will never understand A&M and the whole TU thing. They also do a hand gesture and have bumper stickers with upside down horns. The whole idea is to basically reverse everything- you know, just like Satan worshippers (my brother is an Aggie- I say this in good fun.)

Oh, no, hon. They are Satan.

--that baptist school a little to the north

[epchick]

Originally Posted by LOVEinZTA

Your aggie friends are dyslexic. It's UT, Texas, or "The University of Texas at Austin."

Actually they aren't. There is a reason they call UT-Austin "TU." And its similar to the reason why I asked to say "UT-Austin."

Originally Posted by EE-BO

epchick- I will never understand A&M and the whole TU thing. They also do a hand gesture and have bumper stickers with upside down horns. The whole idea is to basically reverse everything- you know, just like Satan worshippers (my brother is an Aggie- I say this in good fun.)

Lol...that is why my Aggie friend told me. lol. I guess you have to be an Aggie to understand it but the whole thing just makes me lol



To the schools that do the whole full body shot. Does it really make it easier to distinguish PNMs? Cause I know if I had gone to...say UT-Austin and was required to put in a full body shot, i'd make sure I did the whole 'Glamour Shots." Aren't there PNMs who still look NOTHING like their full body shot? And if so, doesn't that negate the whole idea of a full body shot?